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dilcurrie |
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March 24, 2010 12:46:37pm |
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GratefulDead
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st stephen |
i remember listening to a probably late 60's st stephen, and after "...one man gathers what another man sows" after the pause there is an almighty drum beat.It may have been down to how it was taped, but it sounds amazing. Can anyone recall the date?
thanks
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William Tell |
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March 25, 2010 12:53:23pm |
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GratefulDead
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Re: st stephen |
Canon, thanks to Ramrod...here's a portion, more below:
"...Hart also remembered one New Year's Eve when he thought he might be too high to play. Ramrod solved the problem by strapping Hart to his drum stool with gaffer's tape. Hart recalled another show in San Jose with Big Brother and the Holding Company, where the starter's cannon the band used to punctuate the drum solo of "St. Stephen's" went off early. "I looked back," Hart said. "His face was on fire. He'd lost his eyebrows. You could smell his flesh. And he was hurrying to reload the cannon in time. That was the end of the cannons." "
More here:
http://deadnews.blogspot.com/2006/05/ramrod-passes-away.html
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spring mountain high |
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March 25, 2010 06:17:38am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: st stephen |
maybe i'm nuts, but during this period (69-70) i think they had a little cannon, or some such device to fire off an explosion at that point in the song
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Phlesh Wound |
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March 25, 2010 09:47:11am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: st stephen |
I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that Pigpen would sometimes fire a starter's pistol during that part of the song. Maybe in
A Long Strange Trip? Or maybe that's a figment of my overactive imagination.
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RBNW....new and improved! |
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March 24, 2010 03:43:35pm |
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GratefulDead
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Re: st stephen |
spills ....not sows! "...one man gathers what another man spills" are you referring to the william tell bridge perhaps??
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dilcurrie |
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March 24, 2010 03:58:02pm |
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GratefulDead
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Re: st stephen |
Mea culpa. I was listening to Let it Grow, and transposed the lyrics. It was definately spills, and I feel like an arse for making such a mistake, though not so much of an arse to delete the post. Let it stand as testament to the perils of not rereading before posting.
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steam locomotive |
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March 25, 2010 11:57:11am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: st stephen |
Thought this probably happened a number of times, have you checked out 5/2/70 aka DP 8? There's some explosive percussion leading into the jam section.
This post was modified by steam locomotive on 2010-03-25 18:57:11
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